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IBM Db2 Overview

What is IBM Db2?

Built to run the world’s mission-critical workloads. Designed by the world’s leading database experts, IBM Db2 empowers developers, enterprise architects, and data engineers to run low-latency transactions and real-time analytics equipped for the most demanding workloads. From microservices to AI workloads, Db2 is the tested, resilient, and hybrid database providing the extreme availability, built-in refined security, effortless scalability, and intelligent automation for systems that run the world.

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Product Description

IBM® Db2® is the database that offers enterprise-wide solutions handling high-volume workloads. It is optimized to deliver industry-leading performance while lowering costs.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Extreme Availability
Mission critical environments require continuous availability and tolerance for failure. Deploy availability enabling you to run your workloads without interruption.

Built-in Refined Security
Security is at our core. Protect your data with in-motion and at-rest encryption, extensive auditing, data masking, row/column access controls, role-based access and more. No one knows your data like you do. Let’s keep it that way.

Effortless Scalability
Db2 grows with you. Scale up and out as your workloads evolve and your performance needs change.

Intelligent Automation
Managing your database deployments has never been easier. Db2’s built-in container operators automate your most time-consuming database tasks, while keeping your business running. Build apps while taking advantage of our advanced workload management automation and ML-optimized query engine. Do Less, build more.


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"Good experience with DB2 with IBM Spectrum Control"
It´s easy to use, the DB2 is easy to upgrade and manage, all instructions are well documented on the IBM knowledge portal and also the support of t...
Raul G.
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Raul G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"DB2 management"
Many utilities that facilitate use, in addition to improving the performance of some tasks.
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Astra S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"Db2: High Availability and OLTP Powerhouse"
IBM Db2 is excellent for high availability and disaster recovery strategies particularly with HADR and Q replication for near real-time failover. T...

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

I worked in the large transaction processing industry workin with DB2 and Oracle. DB2 combined with other IBM supporting infrastructure is one of the top databases regarding performance. Also, i find db2 tools and management DBA friendly compared to other database products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Few might be dislikes, one if them is DB objects permission management where you need to grant access for every new objet intriduced for some low level access users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

It is DB2 and Oracle on the top, and i suggest DB2 after working with both of them! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it in the main production transaction processing environments with very few failures per year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

We are delighted with the performance of this cloud solution. However, we must not send requests that are too heavy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

My client are not satisfied with the support. They have been in contact with the support team several times, and they are not reactive enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

It saves time. We don’t have to worry about the processes usually required to implement a database on site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Compatible top with multiple software versions. Widely used by many clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Slower compared to oracle versions, little older db. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am currently upgrading applications that use db2 to oracle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

It's easy-to-use interface, easy to understand query and results presentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing much to dislike, but i would like to recommend to make its functionality more accessible with other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to manage our employee database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Fast, reliable, accurate, and smooth ui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

I didn't find anything which can be considered as a negative aspect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

B2b problems, repository management and client testimonials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

User friendly and easy to adopt in short spm of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing is thr to dislike, I didn't face any hurdles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

I recommend to go and take a look once as demo and I'm sure you will amaze and convince. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Jupiter notebook I did couple of python programs and design dashboards for data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Flexible configuration and data extraction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

when the sever got off without proper shutdown of DB2 services, db2 gets failed to connect or corrupted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

multiple database/instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

robustness, efficiency, simplicity, versatility, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It's old, usage is small, and getting phased out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

Its Best and good and compatible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

I solve all my data management procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

The main advantages of DB2 over other databases is the direct access to the data via the dBm interface. It runs on all available operating systems and provides flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Once the transaction log is cometely utilised, the database goes into rollback mode and the system is inaccessible until rollback is completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problems we have solved using db2 is the ease with which we can set up the high availability and disaster recovery set up for SAP systems. Major benefits have been downtime reduction of love production environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

The way it runs in multi-platform like Windows, Unix, Linux etc and has disaster recovery methods is providing the reliability of IBM.

Backing up data is easy and one of the most reliable product for data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing much for now. Every edition is designed for a particular kind of user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use this as a backend data system used in our application integration process where frontend application interface deals with the customers or users and this Db2 use to store the data in bulk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.